About 130 years ago, the job of pianist was automated when Edwin Votey created the first player piano. The machine worked by reading music that was encoded by holes punched into rolls of paper, which ...
“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Technology and entertainment in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Reed Morano has been set to direct Player Piano, an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel. Scripted by Matthew ...
Sheboygan was home to a piano manufacturing industry in the early 20th century. The S.W. Miller Piano Company was formed in 1906 and became known for its quality instruments. The company adapted to ...
In 1918, Lucy Gooch received a wondrous gift from her parents – a new player piano from Montelius Music House in Seattle. Though the name “Montelius Music” was scripted on the piano, it was likely ...
ANOKA, Minn. — Microsoft was born in a garage. Nate Otto’s garage is home to some much older tech. “Especially if you're in 1916, it’s the top tech of the day,” Nate says as he pumps the foot pedals ...
Knott’s Scary Farm visitors who belly up to the bar at the Calico Saloon can shout requests to a ghost pianist who plays everything from Ragtime masterpieces to summery pop hits by Katy Perry during ...
Geza Mika can easily play a Bach invention from memory. He says it was his strong ear that led him to lessons at an early age. "I could hear things and reproduce them on the piano," says Mika, who now ...
Syracuse, N.Y. – One of Franklin Square’s last unredeveloped buildings, a historic structure where self-playing pianos were once made, is up for sale. The vacant building at 156 Solar St. in Syracuse ...
In the parts of a recycled piano, artist Erika Crofut found the key to unlocking her latest creation
GREAT BARRINGTON — A blackbird gazes steadily through a beak of wooden scraps, its once-treasured song fallen silent. Its facial plumage is made of felt hammers; long, slender key skeletons fan out ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City, Missouri, man is facing eight charges that accuse him of child molestation, statutory sodomy and sexual misconduct with a child under 15. 50-year-old Montiero Murray ...
One Minnesota repairman brings musical history back to life. About a decade ago, Nate Otto opened Rum River Restoration in his Anoka garage to bring new life to the player piano. “It’s a piano that ...
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